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A 37-year-old woman was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly stabbing a woman outside a home on King Street in North Sydney.
Cape Breton Regional Police officers responded to a report of a stabbing just after 10:30 a.m.
A police spokesman...

Since leaving Iran and arriving in Canada 20 years ago in search of a better life, Cyrus Salimi has maintained close ties with his homeland.
Many of his family members, including his mother, still live in Tehran, the country’s capital city....

If you listen to advocates of self-driving cars and read the enthusiastic press releases of carmakers working to relieve you of the need to drive by 2020, the world is rushing headlong into a future without drivers.
But do drivers want it?
Not...

Police say a man was killed in Askilton, Inverness County, after crashing his car into a trailer on Wednesday afternoon.
Inverness District RCMP responded to the single-vehicle accident that occurred just off of Barbertown Road at about 1:30 p.m....Read More

Despite all the media and political attention, hybrid and electric vehicles are not exactly setting the sales charts alight.
For the first five months of 2015 Ford sold more than 46,000 pickups with Ram not far behind at 40,000.
On the car side...Read More

A 54-year-old man from Middle River, Victoria County, died and a 26-year-old man from the area was airlifted to hospital after an ultralight aircraft crashed into a barn on Saturday.
The scene was cleared by Sunday morning but RCMP are continuing...Read More

Cape Breton Regional Police say a 15-year-old girl sustained life-threatening injuries and several others were injured in a vehicle rollover near Mira Gut.
Staff Sgt. Ken O’Neill said police responded to the rollover just before midnight on Friday...Read More

SYDNEY — Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt is standing firm that her department won’t contribute to cleanup expenses of the MV Miner.
Speaking at a funding announcement in Sydney, the Conservative MP told reporters that the matter simply doesn’t...Read More

Cape Breton defence lawyer David J. Iannetti has been found guilty of professional negligence, said a written Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision released Tuesday.
George Poulain, a client of Iannetti, sued the North Sydney lawyer after obtaining...Read More

INGONISH — Rhadie Murphy has spent her life on the rugged coastline that snakes along Cape Breton’s northern flank, its pink granite rocks stretching out near her home in the heart of Ingonish.
The 72-year-old is unreserved in her...Read More

A 25-year-old man from River Ryan, Cape Breton County, may be facing drunk driving charges after a vehicle overturned in Broughton early Saturday morning.
The driver and two female passengers were sent to Cape Breton Regional Hospital with non-life-...Read More

There are more than 450 factories around the world producing one billion tires each year.
But that alone does not explain why there is such a wide range of prices for what, on the surface, appears to be the same tire.
Generally speaking, tires...Read More

A Sydney Mines man is charged with attempted murder after allegedly striking a pedestrian Sunday with his vehicle.
Cape Breton Regional Police responded to Pitt Street in Sydney Mines at about 2 a.m. Sunday to a report that a man had driven his...Read More

SYDNEY — The former tar ponds have been solidified in concrete and covered with topsoil and sod, but some residents who failed to get certification for a class action over health concerns from environmental toxins haven’t buried...Read More

SYDNEY — The hottest residential real estate market in Cape Breton might be the stretch of Grand Lake Road between the Mayflower Mall and the drive-in movie theatre.
But it’s only hot for those who are selling, and there’s just one buyer.Read More

When you have to struggle to find things to complain about, it’s a pretty good sign a car company has matured.
Time was, with Kia, things to complain about jumped out at you, from odd or boring styling, atrocious handling, questionable fit...Read More

Sometimes, I like to offer a glimpse into life raising a child on the autism spectrum. Every kid on the spectrum is unique, but one thing we parents have in common is a desire for people to understand this journey is not all “...Read More

With the matter of payment for flyers the Liberals and New Democrats sent to ridings awaiting byelections settled, the political focus in the province now shifts to the byelections themselves.Read More